Senior Consultant / Manager, Financial Process Excellence

Do you want to understand the factors that drive successful financial processes and maximize synergies and financial benefits? Are you interested in delivering exceptional client service by solving problems related to both financial and non-financial reporting? We offer you a challenging and motivational career in EY´s Financial Process Excellence, a team which provides support and advice in projects ranging from financial transformations to IPOs. Have a look below and apply now or before 13.10.2024!

The Opportunity: 

We are currently looking for a Senior Consultant/Manager to join our Financial Process Excellence team, a team within EY’s Financial Accounting Advisory Services.

As a member of the team, you will partner up with CFOs, their finance teams, and business functions to help them optimize their financial and non-financial processes and reporting. You will analyse the clients' existing business procedures and contribute with leading practice experience and potential solutions, ensuring that the proposed solutions align with the goals of the client's organisation. 

The key services we offer to our clients focus on following areas:

• Defining and documenting finance and sustainability reporting processes
• Solving specific financial process related challenges
• Assessing risk management practices and internal controls
• Planning and implementing finance operating model changes
• Managing finance organization changes arising from mergers, acquisitions or divestitures, as well as IPOs
• Supporting with financial technology assessment and implementation

Our aim is to have an engaged and highly capable team performing meaningful work in a sustainable practice.

Your responsibilities:

As a Senior Consultant/ Manager, you will be working in varying roles (e.g., project manager/ stream lead/ subject matter expert) in different types of projects covering a broad range of activities, such as:

• Being responsible for project management activities to enable seamless project delivery 
• Interacting with clients, facilitating client workshops, and preparing high-quality material for decision-making purposes
• Coaching more junior team members to develop into future experts within the field of finance

Both senior consultant and manager positions are client facing roles. Managers have leadership role in project teams and are more involved also in EY internal business development and team building.

Qualifications:

• For the role as a Senior Consultant, 3+ years of relevant work experience e.g., business controlling, accounting, finance, management consulting or auditing, including experience in project delivery roles
• For the role as a Manager, 5+ years of relevant work experience e.g., business controlling, accounting, finance, management consulting or auditing, including experience in project management and challenging project delivery roles
• Academic degree in the field of business e.g., accounting, finance or similar 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, and preferably Finnish (though not a requirement). Other language skills are considered an asset

Skills and attributes for success

• Analytical mindset and interest in complex problem solving
• Good knowledge of financial processes and finance related tools/technology
• Willingness to learn and ability to work in rabidly changing environment
• Team spirit and a client-oriented mindset

The position is permanent and full-time. We hope you would be able to join our team in early 2025.

What we offer

As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to work in a variety of engagements and develop your career according to your own interests and development goals through coaching, training, and MBA programs. You will get to work with some of the most engaging colleagues around the world and have the freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that´s right for you. You will also be able to work in a flexible hybrid mode, where you can combine remote work with on-site work in our modern facilities in the centre of Helsinki.

Employee wellbeing is our top priority, and we want you to feel welcome in our relaxed and caring community. According to our personnel survey, over 90% of our employees feel they can truly be themselves at EY.When working at EY you are entitled to our extensive selection of over 50 employee benefits. In addition to the traditional ePassi lunch benefit, we also offer culture, sports, and wellbeing benefits. 

We offer broad occupational health services, and our employees are entitled to participate in EY supported staff clubs and coaching sessions to support your wellbeing, work-life balance as well as career development. We have a flexible hybrid working model which allows you to work from our new office, your summer cottage or under the Spanish Sun (you can work one month remotely from abroad per year) depending on your team’s and clients’ situation.  

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. 

We would be happy to hear from you so please apply via our career website by 13.10.2024. Applying is easy: you can fill in your contact information and attach your CV (we also accept CV`s in a PDF form or picture of your LinkedIn profile). We will go through applications already during the application period and will move forward with suitable candidates as soon as possible. 

We are looking for both senior consultants and managers. You may indicate your interest in a specific position in your application, or the best fit for either role can be discussed during the recruitment process.

More information about the role and team: Eero Ala-Heikkilä, Manager (eero.ala-heikkila@fi.ey.com)  

If you need any support or adjustments during the recruitment process or the employment, please contact our local recruitment team at rekrytointi@fi.ey.com. You do not need to disclose any details about your disability or reasons for needing adjustments. Simply let us know what kind of support or adjustment you require and how it will benefit you throughout the process. We are committed to ensuring a smooth and inclusive recruitment process for all candidates. Read more here. 

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